Have you ever been consider an outsider? Do you know what it feels like to have your ethnical background view as inferior or strange? In Amy tan’s “Fish Cheeks” and Mya Angelou’s “champion of the the world” it gives insight as to what it is like to be non- white in a dominantly white America. They show the differences and similarities of what sets them apart from dominant culture‚ and how the events that both portrayed effected that difference. There are a few things that sets them both from
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interpretations. This is clear in Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish” as the speaker has second thoughts of capturing a fish to eat after realizing the severities it went through. This poem does a great job of using several techniques to get its point across on the central theme‚ which is interpreted as the ongoing struggle of humans versus nature. The author uses several literary approaches to convey its message. By utilizing diction‚ figurative language and imagery‚ the power of man over the environment is
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store owners to well-known celebrities‚ there are more than seven billion unique faces‚ unique personalities‚ and unique identities in the world. Among these seven billion are the authors Amy Tan and Mary Matsuda Gruenewald. In her short story "Fish Cheeks"‚ Tan told her tale of being a Chinese- American girl and the embarrassment that she felt came with it. Grunewald wrote the book Looking Like the Enemy‚ which detailed her Japanese-American family’s experience during the time period of Japanese
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people focus more on what type of intentions others have. When finding your own identity it is easy to get caught up in the materialistic things in life. When one’s identity is being described‚ people tend to think of one’s image. In the story “Fish Cheeks” Amy Tan explained in paragraph one that when she was a teen‚ all she wanted for Christmas was a “slim new American nose.” Meaning she did not like her Chinese image. Throughout the story she admitted that she wanted so badly to be an American and
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Alexis Henry Gifted author of Fish Cheeks‚ Amy Tan‚ assures young girls that being different is not only acceptable‚ but also advantageous. Rhetorical strategies-such as imagery‚ tone‚ diction‚ and appeals (logos‚ ethos‚ pathos)-were the brushes with which she painted a portrait of self-acceptance for teenage girls everywhere. Tan uses a sympathetic tone to relate to the awkward teenage reader that is experiencing the same thing and the nostalgic adult reader that has experienced. Tan’s
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recommended. Research has clearly shown that explaining things to others – teaching – helps the person doing the explaining to really learn the material. Students sometimes figure things out just by organizing their thoughts enough to phrase their question. And many many people think they know something‚ but when they explain‚ it becomes clear that they haven’t quite got it. Then we can clear things up. It is very important that your focus be on understanding and learning the material‚ not just
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through “Fish Cheeks” and “Melting Pot” but is also important in my life (or our world today). Above all else‚ both “Fish Cheeks” and “Melting Pot” shows that it is essential to our identity and the distinctions that make us interesting. One quote from the story "Fish Cheeks" is‚ “At the end of the meal‚ my father leaned back and belched loudly‚ thanking my mother for her fine cooking. "It’s a polite Chinese custom to show you are satisfied‚" explained Amy’s father. This pivotal quote from "Fish Cheeks"
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The Leveraged Buyout of Cheek Products Finance 620 – Summer 2010 Group 1 Danielle Kaufmann Vivake Persaud Jessica Friedman Loria Mcleod David Lawrence Background: Cheek Products‚ Inc. began as a snack food company but has since expanded into different types of business through acquisitions‚ such as home security systems‚ cosmetics‚ and plastics. The company has not been performing as expected in recent years‚ and management has not tried to improve operations in any way
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Amy Tan’s "Fish Cheeks" and Maya Angelou’s "Champion of the World" Maya Angelou and Amy Tan discuss religious problems and culture differences in their literature. The authors have captured these differences by their past experiences of friends and family. Both authors come from a diverse culture‚ but both face the same harsh society of the American culture and beliefs. The Author’s both tell about situations in their short stories of being outcasts and coming from different racial backgrounds
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Question 2: What did Franz notice that was unusual about the school that day? Answer : That day‚ Franz noticed the absence of the routine commotion caused by the opening and closing of desks‚ repeating of lessons in unison and rapping of the teacher’s ruler on the table. The usual hustle-bustle was replaced by a strange stillness that was the characteristic of a school on a “Sunday morning.” Question 3: What had been put up on the bulletin-board? Answer : The bulletin-board notified the
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